[time-nuts] To use or not to use transmission line splitters for GPS receivers
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Oct 11 01:59:13 UTC 2012
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org said:
> I do know those that temperature stabilizes both the concrete pillar and
> cable conduct.
I hadn't thought about the support pillar. CTE of concrete is 8-12 PPM/C, so
a 10 C change would be 100 PPM. 10 meters would be 1000 micrometers or 1 mm.
I think that's 3 picoseconds.
I couldn't measure that, but I expect it's important for the big boys.
I was thinking of 10 meters as being the height of a building. A stand alone
pillar in the middle of a field wouldn't need to be that tall. The cable to
the lab would be longer, but you could run two cables and measure the length
of the other one with TDR.
I was thinking of a pillar as primarily in the vertical direction so maybe it
doesn't matter as much. But if it's on the corner of a building, maybe the
whole building shrinks/grows in the horizontal dimensions too. Most
buildings are more than 10 meters long, but the temperature on the inside is
usually constant so maybe the building doesn't change size much in any
dimension.
What's the temperature time constant of a building or (unheated) antenna
pillar? What's the skin depth at 24 hours or 1 year?
(Steel is the same ballpark: 14 PPM/C)
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